In Europe yes, Ada has been a constant presence at FOSDEM in the last decade and many universities.

This has taken off since we finally got an open source Ada compiler (GNAT) without the typical enterprise/military prices.

Also Ada 2012 is quite different from Ada 83.

Then we have this, https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/opmemc-1/memor... increasing exponentially every day thanks networked computers.

From where I stand, it's not really gaining any popularity, but I always wanted to use Ada for something practical, and I finally have something that needs a good language with a rich type system that is compiled to native code (and not statically linked at that), and somehow I don't like Rust there.